Новости за 12.10.2020

Halloween night is going to look very different this year thanks to the horror show that is 2020, but that doesn’t mean we are going to completely ignore Spooky Season. (Side note: Is that an actual thing? I feel like I never heard it until the past few weeks, and now it’s everywhere.)

Well that’s a wrap on the whole “keep Tenet in theaters for long enough and it’ll eventually make good money” scheme we’ve been writing about for over a month: After five weeks on top of the weekend box office with no competition in sight—especially as No Time To Die, Black Widow, Wonder Woman 1984, and possibly some…

Happy Monday. October’s been a long year. Who among us does not at least kind of need a story about how great Dolly Parton is and the things she’s chosen to do with her life? Luckily, The New Yorker’s Lauren Michele Jackson is happy to oblige.

“Selling out” used to be the ultimate sin, but with wealth disparity in the U.S. being what it is, millennials and Gen Z kiddos are often more than willing to sell their soul for guaranteed healthcare. Follow a celebrity on Instagram and you’re bound to see them shilling miracle weight loss garbage or brain pills,…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: A new Liam Neeson potboiler is headed for theaters, so we’re singling out the best movies of the star’s aging ass-kicker renaissance (excepting The Grey, which we’ve …

The Trump campaign is desperate to dunk on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but their hilarious and wildly off-base attempts to paint the pair as puppets of the “radical left” doesn’t seem to landing as they’d hoped. As such, our messy president’s men have sought to own the libs in other, more creative ways. Last week,…

Joining the conversation with co-hosts and long-distance best friends Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman this week is Crooked Media’s political director, Shaniqua McClendon. Given the distance between Friedman and Sow—which has only taken on more weight at a time when few people are traveling to be near one another—their…

20th Century Studios’ Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was originally scheduled to come out this year. Like everything else impacted by COVID, it was pushed back to January of next year, even though that date was looking rather ambitious, as well. But not even a raging pandemic can stop the technicolor aspirations of…

Radha Blank had a very clear vision for the semi-autobiographical comedy The Forty-Year-Old Version. “I wanted it to be in the spirit of a Christopher Guest mockumentary, a send up of my life and that included authentic New Yorkers,” the multihyphenate told The A.V. Club over the phone. “From the people talking to…

Pennyworth, the only show where you get to see Batman’s butler fuck, returns to EPIX in December for the first half of its second season. We weren’t too hot on the Batman prequel’s first outing, but the fast-paced spy series’ new episodes promise the introduction of a key character in the DC universe: Lucius Fox.

Earlier this year, when Vanity Fair teased the release of Aaron Sorkin’s new movie, The Trial Of The Chicago 7, the magazine included a quote from Sorkin claiming that one of the movie’s stars, Succession’s Jeremy Strong, “begged me to spray him with real tear gas.” Strong, the article suggested, wanted to know what…

For as long as it’s been on the air, protestors dressed in red nun habits modeled after those seen on Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale have been descending on Capitol Hill (and elsewhere). Conservative efforts to propose laws restricting abortion access have only increased in the U.S. in the…

I wish this were a more obvious statement, but good queer representation does not mean queer characters have to be good people. When queer critics talk about good queer representation, we’re talking about nuanced, complex writing that doesn’t reiterate tropes designed and perpetuated by the overculture. Theodora Crain…

Here’s a fun, mind-boggling fact: All three seasons of DreamWorks’ Kipo And The Age Of Wonderbeasts premiered within 2020. The amount of world-building that creator Rad Sechrist and showrunner Bill Wolkoff managed to pack in 30 episodes has made for one of the most innovative adventures viewers have been on in a while…

TV executives and creators alike are struggling to figure out how to make sure the show(s) goes on in the midst of a pandemic. For many, that’s meant putting a pin in things (for others, it’s meant just axing them despite existing renewal orders) and shifting season and midseason premieres to 2021. Network sitcoms…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, October 12. All times are Eastern.

One thing that’s always balanced out Fargo’s more self-conscious quirks is the show’s ability to balance oddball whimsy with dread. That dread has been sorely missing this season, but it arrived in “The Pretend War” with considerable force, starting with Ethelrida’s vision of a creepy disfigured man on the stairs, and…

Luck is a finite resource. At some point, it’s going to run out. But not this week—though even kids this naive have to admit, surviving their ordeal at the end of this episode was pure luck, where running blind through a smoke-filled field of abandoned buses and swarms of empties somehow didn’t end up with all of them…

Secrets come out, Hippolyta is back, and Tic, Leti, and Montrose are headed back in time. It’s the Tulsa episode, everyone! This bit of history which was lost to most non-Black Americans makes its second appearance on an HBO series. Once again the survivors are front and center, and the endless trauma of Black people…

Folks, it’s not every day you see Steve Zahn get blown in half with a cannon. The gratuitously gory death of Zahn’s drunken ruffian Chase, toward the end of an episode that features a lot of accidental sex jokes, intrigue, and violence, cemented my main tonal reference point for The Good Lord Bird: It’s a version of…

This morning Twitter flagged yet another Trump tweet for spreading misleading information, with him saying that he had gotten a “complete sign off” from “White House Doctors” and that he is now “immune” to COVID-19 and also “can’t give it” either. Twitter put the offending missive behind a disclaimer, but—as it has…